Voting Rights Timeline

Us Constitution Is Adopted Debates Over Adopting The US Constitution and Who Should Be Allowed To Vote ( In Slave States )
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The Seneca Falls Convention was an early and influential women's rights convention, the first to be organized by women in the Western world, in Seneca Falls, New York. It was planned by local New York women . The meeting spanned two days, 19 and 20 July 1848, and had six sessions, included a lecture on law, a humorous presentation, and multiple discussions about the role of women in society.
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also known as the Equal Rights Association, was an organization formed by women's rights and black rights activists in 1866 in the United States. Its goal was to join the cause of gender equality with that of racial equality. Tensions between proponents of the dissimilar goals caused the AERA to split apart in 1869. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony form the American Equal Rights Association, an organization dedicated to the goal of suffrage for all regardless of gender or race.
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The 15th Amendment was the third of of the Reconstruction Amendments. This amendment prohibits the states and the federal government from using a citizen's race or color or previous status as a slave as a voting qualification. Granting free men of color the right to vote could be seen as giving them the rights of citizens, an argument explicitly made by Justice Curtis's dissent in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
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Segregation / Voting Rights Restrictions Poll Taxes / Literacy Test
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Gave Women The Right To Vote After 72 Years
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On Election Day in 1920, millions of American women exercised their right to vote for the first time. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right, and the campaign was not easy: Disagreements over strategy threatened to cripple the movement more than once. But on August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified, giving voting rights to all American women and declaring for the first time that they also deserve all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
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The 24th Amendment prohibits both Congress and states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on a payment of a poll tax or any other taxes. This amendment was ratified on January 23, 1964 by the states. Poll Taxes were created to prevent African-Americans from voting and was being held to be constitutional by the Supreme Court in the decision Breedlove vs Suttles. Even though this amendment was created, 5 states still retained a poll tax. The poll tax was part of a series of laws intended to marginalize black Americans from politics so far as practicable without violating the Fifteenth Amendment, which required that voting not be limited by "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." The poll tax had the additional impact of weakening poor white voters who might sympathize with the Populist Party
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More than 500 non-violent civil rights marchers were attacked by law enforcement officers while attempting to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to demand the need for African American voting rights.
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Protesting the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson and ongoing exclusion from the electoral process, were attacked by state and local police with billy clubs and tear gas.
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